KonMOCHINA~! Today's stream is Tokyo School Life Part 2, starting at 9:45 AM JST! Let's see Mochitarou Smith's Japan life with the three cute girls (Shokupan-bread & Princess & Tanukichi=Tom Nook) and learn Jpanese together!
As I announced during Sunday's stream, I've officially become a YouTube Partner!!!!It's all thanks to EVERYONE who watched so many of my livestreams and archives and helped spread the word by reposting them!
I was able to achieve this in just about in two months because of all of you!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU so much!!! There are two levels of the YouTube Partner Program, and Level 1 requires 3,000 watch hours (Level 2 requires 4,000h). I reached 3,150 hours during the first week of November and successfully qualified!
Due to hospitalization last year, I had to take a break from my activities for about five months. During that time, my watch hours weren't increasing. In fact, I was actually losing them because YouTube uses a 365 day-rolling system.!
On top of that, YouTube announced a sudden change to its monetization policy, raising the required watch hours within 365 days from 3,000 to 8,000 starting February 1, 2027.
I was seriously worried and thought, "This is really, REALLY bad...!! What am I going to do!?"
But just worrying won’t solve anything, so I immediately started calculating how many hours I needed to stream, how often I needed to stream, and how many viewers I would need to reach 3,000 watch hours.
I also took into account the watch hours that would disappear every day because as I wrote earlier, YouTube only counts hours earned within a rolling 365-day period. Based on those calculations, I created a streaming plan.
As those of you who have known me for a long time already know, I have a chronic medical condition as well as chronic pharyngitis and vocal cord inflammation. So I also made sure my plan accounted for the possibility that I might need to take days off.
However, simply making a plan wasn't enough. The most important factor was how many of you would actually watch my streams and how long you would stay.Thank you so much for making this possible.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that for the past two months, my life consisted entirely of preparing for my regular Japanese lessons, preparing for livestreams, and going to medical appointments.
I even canceled my gym membership because I no longer had time to go. I didn't meet up with my friends or family even once, and I couldn't even find time to go to the hair salon💀
(Oh speaking of hairsaon, do you rememberthat I used to go to a hair salon where one of the hairstylists dresses like a cowboy two years ago? Well, I actually switched to a different salon last year! It's a salon that many famous streamers go to!)
The only time I went out somewhere other than the hospital or convenience store was the day I visited the stores for my HIS Travel Ambassador project. In order to make the most of my time that day, I visited all three stores in one trip and also picked up and shipped the business cards I'll be handing out at an overseas event.
But!! Mochina Sensei is still a small Vtuber who needs your help & support!
Once again, thank you so much!I'm really, really happy! I don't use provocative language just to go viral, and I don't make social media posts nor videos simply to grab people's attention. Because of that, I often struggle to get noticed by the algorithm.But I believe that sincerity and honesty are important.
I'll continue doing my best to create high-quality educational entertainment that helps you learn and is genuinely worth your time.
So please, PLEASE don't think, "Well, Mochina Sensei is a YouTube Partner now, so she probably doesn't need our support anymore..." LOLI don't think becoming a YouTube Partner will make it any easier for my videos to get picked up by the algorithm!
So please keep watching my streams,archives, videos, leaving likes & comments, and sharing my content with your Japanese-learning communities!
Thank you all so, so much!!!
And onnce again, reminder! Today's stream is Tokyo School Life Part 2 at 9:45 AM JST!
Come join and let's study Japanese with the three cute girls &Mochina-sensei & Mochitarou Smith!